[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#500709: nagios3: Home directory should not be in an ephemeral hier

[John Morrissey]

Package: nagios3
Version: 3.0.3-2
Severity: normal

The nagios user's home directory is set to /var/run/nagios3, but /var/run is
cleared on every boot per the FHS.

/var/run is emptied on every boot, which removes all ssh known host keys and
causes subsequent check_ssh service checks to fail (the corresponding
services go critical) until the remote servers' host keys are manually added
to ~nagios/.ssh/known_hosts.

It seems like /var/lib/nagios3 might be a better choice for the nagios
user's home directory, to avoid this kind of failure mode.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: alpha
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-alpha-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)